User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Redwall Wars:Civilizations/@comment-2006360-20100524225047

I thought that Badrang didn't trust other stoats? Oh well, I'll join that team. Oh, and I found some historical mistakes in this game. I'm not saying you should change anything. I'm just telling what I found:

1. Mongols were famed for being horsemen. Though spearmen are the basis of just about every pre-gun army, the Mongols were best as horsemen with bows.

2. More commonly ninjas were the enemy of the samurai. Ninjas started out as farmers trying to survive during the dictatorship of the shoguns and their samurai armies.

3. Like the Mongols, the Huns were best as horsemen. They were also famed as axemen rather than spearmen, but you did get it right that they were good archers as well.

4. The Romans were better with spears and swords than with bows. Their archers were commonly mercenaries and foreigners.

5. The Spartans believed that long-range weaponry wasn't manly. They were best with the stabbing spear and shortsword. Javelins and slings were NOT for them.

6. The Persians were good swordsmen, but best as horse archers, much like the Mongols. No wonder they defeated the Spartans at Thermoyplae! Also, during the pre-Alexander the Great period, they used war elephants.

Of course, horsemen and war elephants in the Redwall universe are out of question. Also, here are some ideas for new armies:

1. Goths (led by Zwilt the Shade): Expert stealth warriors. Mostly swordmen and axemen.

2. Spanish (led by Ferahgo the Assassin): Mostly spearmen and bowmen.

3. Inuits (Led by The Urgan Nagru): Mostly javeliniers and spearmen.

4. Bandits (led by Slagar the Cruel): Rag-tag barbarians. Mostly axemen, spearmen, and slingers.